ActionSA Welcomes Blacklisting of Joint Venture and Its Owners of the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Plant Implicated
Jackie Mathabathe
ActionSA Tshwane Regional Chairperson
ActionSA welcomes the announcement by our Coalition to blacklist the joint venture of CMS, NJR and Blackhead Consulting and its sole owner, ANC-connected and Gupta-related, Edwin Sodi, to ensure that they can no longer do business with the state for a period of 5 years.
In March 2022 ActionSA submitted a Motion to the Tshwane Council to investigate the awarding of the contract for the refurbishment of Phase 1 of the Rooiwal Waste Water Treatment Works (RWWTW) after we had commissioned a Water Commission of Inquiry in 2021 which discovered that the Hammanskraal water was not potable and fit for human consumption.
After a series of Council delays ActionSA successfully compelled the then Mayor to commission a forensic investigation into the awarding of the contract, which investigation unearthed Gross, Negligent, Unauthorised Irregular Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure (UIFW). It is therefore a much-welcomed move by the City to flag and deal with this tenderpreneur who is allegedly still being awarded state work in other parts of the country.
We continue to express our support for the City of Tshwane’s budget being a step in the right direction to restore financial sustainability and good governance to the city’s finances while accelerating service delivery to all communities across the city. And we will pursue a very stringent oversight over the appointment of the new contractor and also over the actual contractual work for the refurbishment to ensure Phase 1 of the RWWTW commences and is completed well on budget and on time.
As a committed partner of the City of Tshwane multi-party coalition government, ActionSA looks forward to working with our coalition partners to help bring change to residents of the Capital City, especially the people of Hammanskraal and those affected by the RWWTW debacle.
ActionSA Welcomes Blacklisting of Joint Venture and Its Owners of the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Plant Implicated
ActionSA welcomes the announcement by our Coalition to blacklist the joint venture of CMS, NJR and Blackhead Consulting and its sole owner, ANC-connected and Gupta-related, Edwin Sodi, to ensure that they can no longer do business with the state for a period of 5 years.
In March 2022 ActionSA submitted a Motion to the Tshwane Council to investigate the awarding of the contract for the refurbishment of Phase 1 of the Rooiwal Waste Water Treatment Works (RWWTW) after we had commissioned a Water Commission of Inquiry in 2021 which discovered that the Hammanskraal water was not potable and fit for human consumption.
After a series of Council delays ActionSA successfully compelled the then Mayor to commission a forensic investigation into the awarding of the contract, which investigation unearthed Gross, Negligent, Unauthorised Irregular Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure (UIFW). It is therefore a much-welcomed move by the City to flag and deal with this tenderpreneur who is allegedly still being awarded state work in other parts of the country.
We continue to express our support for the City of Tshwane’s budget being a step in the right direction to restore financial sustainability and good governance to the city’s finances while accelerating service delivery to all communities across the city. And we will pursue a very stringent oversight over the appointment of the new contractor and also over the actual contractual work for the refurbishment to ensure Phase 1 of the RWWTW commences and is completed well on budget and on time.
As a committed partner of the City of Tshwane multi-party coalition government, ActionSA looks forward to working with our coalition partners to help bring change to residents of the Capital City, especially the people of Hammanskraal and those affected by the RWWTW debacle.